Mother, daughter team cross Atlantic in row boat May 5, 2004 SportsLine.com wire reports BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Sarah and Sally Kettle have become the first mother-daughter team to cross the Atlantic in a row boat. The British pair set off in a 23-foot plywood boat, the Calderdale, from the Canary Islands on Jan. 20, along with 13 other boats racing in the Ocean Rowing Society's Atlantic Rowing Regatta. Sarah, 45, and Sally, 27, arrived late Tuesday night in Barbados after the 2,907-mile journey. "Fantastic, absolutely fantastic," Sarah Kettle said. She said the trip was fueled by chocolate. "We ate so much chocolate. I never ate so much chocolate until now," she said. The pair were met by Sarah's husband, Stephen, and Sally's fiance, Marcus Thompson. Sally first attempted the trip with Thompson, who suffers from epilepsy. In October 2003, they set off on the Atlantic Business Rowing Race. But after only six days at sea, seasickness triggered Thompson's first seizure in two years, forcing them to turn back. Sarah decided she would take his place and learned to row in two weeks. "Getting on together was quite a challenge but we got on better than I ever thought we would," Sally Kettle said. "We had a fantastic trip." The pair are trying to raise $1.7 million for epilepsy research at King's College in London. They trained for more than a year. AP NEWS The Associated Press News Service Copyright 2004, The Associated Press, All Rights Reserved -------------------------------------------------------- You have got to be kidding me. Four months of rowing to get across the Atlantic. There isnt anything that I would want to do for four months. Unbelievable.
How is that possible? After watching the perfect storm and many more movies I couldn't fathom how a row boat would make it in those storms and waves. Don't you need a Viking Ship or something bigger...
im sure theres one thing you've been doing since hitting puberty. anyway, so a mother and daughter get accross the ocean in a rowboat, TWENTY THREE FOOT rowboat, and they got to eat chocolate the whole time, and they get huge pub and props. meanwhile people in cuba are swimming over in innertubes and car tires and get nothing. not impressed.
I'm doing pretty well if I can handle being around one of my parents for four hours, but FOUR MONTHS? Uh, no thanks.
These people were most likely hairy, unkept beasts upon returning to land. And where did these people move their bowells?
Isn't it comforting to know that, no matter what the topic, as soon as T_J enters the discussion, it turns to ****.
